Massimiliano Caldi

Conductor

Biography highlights

Born in Milan, Massimiliano Caldi had been Principle Conductor of Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra between 1998 and 2009, and Principal Conductor of the Silesian Chamber Orchestra Katowice, where he was also artistic director and conductor between 2006 and 2010.

Currently, he is Principal Conductor of the Polish Baltic F. Chopin Philharmonic in Gdansk and Principal Conductor and Artistic Consultant of the S. Moniuszko Philharmonic of Koszalin, Poland.

Massimiliano Caldi is the winner of the 6th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Orchestral Conducting in Katowice (1st Prize, 1999) and at present works in the fields of both symphonic and opera music, principally in Italy and Poland.

In Poland he regularly conducts concerts at the Silesian Philarmonic Concert Hall and with the Silesian Chamber Orchestra he has taken part in some of the most famous Polish festivals.

He has also conducted the Polish Radio Symphonic Orchestra and the Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra of Warsaw, the Katowice Polish Radio National Symphonic Orchestra, the Szymanowski Philharmonic Orchestra of Cracow, the Karlowicz Philharmonic Orchestra of Stettin, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Rzeszów Philharmonic.

Among his recordings are the CDs Salomè, Re Lear and Don Bucefalo for Dynamic (2008), and the CD Little Big Music with music by Britten, Holst, Lutoslawski and Kilar and Silesian Chamber Orchestra for DUX (2009).